[PD-dev] release pd 0.52 update?

[Alexandre Torres Porres]

Em dom., 16 de out. de 2022 às 11:59, Miller Puckette via Pd-dev <
pd-dev at lists.iem.at> escreveu:

> OK, I'm convinced.  Anyhow there are plenty of possible version numbers
> left :)
>

Does this mean we're getting the same update now but as 0.53-0?


>
> Another reason could be that I'm unable to do as much testing myself as
> usual.
>
> A minor inconvenience is that the older-mac compiles will have to wait
> until I can
> get back to my usual lair.
>

I still can't see the new test compilations up in your website. What about
those? I think older mac versions (32 bits) are very rarely used these days.


>
> cheers
> Miller
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 03:09:52PM +0200, Thomas Mayer wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 15.10.22 22:00, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
> > > imho, a "bugfix release" is a promise to the user that says "nothing
> has
> > > changed with respect to the previous release, except we fixed these
> > > annoying bugs".
> > > so i worry not about "features" but about "anything not a bugfix".
> > >
> > > and with 0.52-3, plenty of things have changed (and a few annoying bugs
> > > have been fixed as well).
> > > ~70 C-files have been modified, and 3 header files have been modified
> > > (suggesting additions to the API)
> > >
> > > so i just fail to understand why we can't just call it "0.53-0", as
> this
> > > clearly is beyond a "bugfix" release.
> >
> > I fully agree with IOhannes. Someone may need a bugfix for their concert
> > next week and they are positively surprised by getting this bugfix just
> in
> > time, while being negatively surprised by the regression during their
> > performance. Signalling big changes by version number is a good thing.
> >
> > Not every user read the release info or changelog, as to most this is
> > unintelligable gibberish (What exactly does "rework of GUI code" mean to
> an
> > end user?)
> >
> > Just my 0,02€,
> > Thomas
> > --
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